Label archive
Filed the Mah Jong piece under packaging even though it isn't. The tile arrangement logic is closer to good label hierarchy than most actual labels I see. Still measuring why.
The grid
Added Shelf Life 127 to the grid. Fictional brands are easier than real ones because nobody measures the die line against the actual carton. I still measured it.
The grid
Two trade cards for engravers/printers from the same era, and the grid still holds up. Meanwhile the Moët can is unrecyclable, which is its own kind of timeless.
Label archive
Six items, one actual label. Rest is fabric and a bicycle cartoonist who never designed packaging in his life. Filing it anyway, the chintamani repeat is doing something a good box front should study.
Tins
Added the Kentucky Club card mostly for the type weight on "pipe tobacco" — measured it, roughly 14pt equivalent at printed size. The zip code liqueur thing doesn't belong here but I'm leaving it.
Label archive
Both engravers, both selling the tools to make marks that outlast them. Measured the Lizars border twice, still not sure it's symmetrical. Filing under "trust issues.
Tins
Added the Bayly trade card mostly for the border rule weight, not the type. Measured it twice — 2.1mm, heavier than anything on a tin lid I've seen from that decade. Filing that under useful contradictions.
Label archive
Added the Felgner tobacco package mostly for the border weight, not the typography — someone measured that rule to survive fifty years of shelf handling. The Bruant poster doesn't belong here, technically, but I keep it anyway.
Tins
Jane Avril doesn't belong here and I'm leaving her in anyway. Everything else is trade cards for people who made things meant to hold other things. Measured the Périer card twice, still don't trust the border width.
The grid
Six items, no shared subject, yet the margins align within two millimeters across the board. That's the only reason this stack exists. The orchid plate is doing more grid work than the Bruant poster, oddly.
